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ANZAC DAY 2023
Lest we forget. for those who don't know, ANZAC day is today for us here in OCE (i'm NZ specifically) always an emotional day.
Thank you for remembering that it is ANZAC Day.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them …. Lest we forget .
Thanks.
Any holiday is good for me. I Stay in me jammies, put on a warm dressing gown. SIT right back in me Electric chair, put a pet blanket over me legs 🦵 & rest me legs 🦵 on a comfy stool
as kids, we drank water out of the garden hose, just had to let it run for a few seconds to wash out the spiders lol
In Northern Ontario, we started drinking from the hose right away. Extra protein. :-)
@@randallwoods yer not that sort of hose mate 😁
Or let it cool down a little.
Yeah the spiders
And in summer, you needed to let the hotter water flush out of the hose before drinking. Grüße aus Australien.
The tap water here in Australia has to go through what is considered on of the toughest drinking water regulatory systems, with over 250 guidelines to ensure it is safe to drink.
Mind you, the taste of the tap water does change from place to place but that is from all different kinds of factors. It doesn't matter that much anyway for me, I am just happy that our water is clean and safe.
Toughest standards 😂... Fluoridated and chemed to the Maxx , I don't shower in it let alone drink it 😂, I have rain water and good filtration even then I don't fully trust what comes down in the rains. You think your tap water is good.....but from someone who washes in Rain water I can tell you the smell and feel of the town water is shocking you just can't tell as you are used to it so don't know any different, for me I feel it on the skin I smell it in the shower or bath when I am not on my property
Yes true, mind you, where i lived once had the best tap water it tasted like rainwater its soo good!
Adelaide water was notoriously bad - not unsafe but cloudy and sometimes had a weird smell. Ships wouldn’t take on water in Adelaide if they could help it. But now it’s good. Why pay a fortune for bottled water and create more waste plastic.
@@lynneclarke6265 town water good 😂😂 sorry don't mean to laugh but it's far from good....the pH level is off the water contains chlorine and fluoride and other nasty things . It goes through ancient underground pipes leaching heavy metal into it, spring water bottles at source filtered through rock and so on ... With actual minerals in it.... Also the way it flows and bends at right angles all the time...corrupts the molecular structure of the water.... And so much more.... Considering we are made of water..... It is essential to have the best , then again I don't shop at wollies or Coles ..only organic.. call me a snob and I am... But I have a background in natural medicine for 25 years and the research of what I have seen .. people wonder why there is such a cancer epidemic... Lot of it has to do with the pH of the body and certain levels of pH allow cancer to thrive and more , enough of my rant....but no there is no safe or good town water in Australia that's for sure
I live right near Warragamba Dam that serves as Sydney's primary water supply, the tap water is so damn good here.
Here in Belgium they just play the original songs at any time, without disclaimers. I never understood why Americans make such a big deal over a few curse words.
A few years ago we stopped with the 1 and 2 cent coins too in Belgium and I know some other European countries did this also. If you pay electronically there's no change but if you pay cash they will round off to 0 or 5 cents.
Same! It boggles my mind how some US Americans get soooo uptight or offended over "swear words" yet don't blink about all the violence on TV, movies or sadly in the streets. Why give so much power to a few words? Lol. Obviously I don't mean Ian or his family, they are not easily offended. Plenty of Americans don't care too much about swearing ...but a lot do.
Might do some people over there some good to vent and have a good swear now n then rather than getting ragey in other ways.
I only ever heard the censored stuff in the usa.
All the talk of snowflakes and cencorship comming from the USA and then this lol.
@Lorre Fl For me its wierd when they talk about coffeeshops coz in the Netherlands we go there for other things
I agree with you Lorre, I am so glad Australia doesn't have the "Puritan mentality" that the USA has, we live and let live, some swear, some don't, people have their preferences and it doesn't worry us, it's their life, there is a lot of respect for others in Australia, of course, there are ratbags but we avoid them or ignore them, the philosophy is that everyone has a rotten day now and then, it's a pity that so many people in the US pay attention to so many insignificant issues and on the other hand they have really serious issues to concentrate on and change, they are the most medicated country in the world, they have an enormous deficit in education, health, their blind passion for guns, their children can be shot down any minute in their schools, etc etc, but they worry about "a bad word" in a song. I know, it's not all the USA, it's the intolerant ones that spoil their image, there are so many beautiful people there, like in any country.
I often don't even notice curse words if i hear them but i would get mad i they mutilate songs by muting, or worse, bleeping words in songs as it only pulls more attention to it instead of the song.
One thing that was not mentioned about the coffee in Australia is that all of those shops are independently owned, and all of the coffee is different. They use different suppliers, different beans, and so there is a lot of variation. Starbucks failed in Australia because it's just not very good, it's expensive and who wouldn't rather buy from a local business rather than a multi-national chain.
yup! Starbucks started up in Canberra's CBD; lasted about 6 months. I had a couple; pretty ordinary not-cheap coffee served with an offensive (to an Australian) level of pretention.
Pretty sure Starbucks still exists in Australia, but basically no one who takes cafe culture remotely seriously buys from there. Also McDonald's developed McCafe in Melbourne based around its cafe culture.
@@TheBlackSeraph Didn't say it wasn't; there's at least one in Sydney and brisbane. Just not in Canberra.
@@TheBlackSeraph the Starbucks in Sydney is always full of tourists or Australians having what looks essentially like a milkshake? they don't go for the coffee, maybe just the muffins.
Starbucks coffee is dreadful. If
Id rather have instant. And yes, Maccas coffee is reasonable
Having moved from North America to Australia... most Australian cities are very beautiful the larger regional towns are beautiful too.
Not sure about other Australian cities but in Perth we actually have digital signs on the freeways which give us live estimates of how long it will take to get to particular exits. So it takes the current traffic into consideration and updates.
All mainland capitals
Same in NSW
We have them in Newcastle too. Once on my way to work there was a major crash on the M1. I drove past the last exit before my own and the sign came up with 58 minutes when it usually says 11-12, and I ended up being an hour and a half late for work lol
Ian, you mentioned the water you buy is cheap, if you buy bottled water ion Aus is expensive, but as the tap water is very clean and perfectly drinkable it's $2.50 for 1000L (264 US Gallons) and that expensive to what it used to be, so I guess our drinkable tap water is super cheap
@Mopar Here in the Netherlands is normal to drink tap water and just like with you much cheaper than bottled water
Most cities we also get free fluoride for our teeth.
Also on many places tap water is a lot cleaner than some of those bottled waters.
@Jordan yes it does. Plenty of studies show the benefits, hence why it was added, and why there's fluoride tooth pastes and treatments
You think fluoride in the water makes it clean? You realize it's a toxic mining waste chemical
In the uk the tap water is perfectly fine to drink. Growing up and travelling to different countries,I always found it bizarre they couldn’t drink water from there taps! 😳
I chuckle at american tourists that visit sweden and make those travel vids, many of them make sure to point out that the tap water is safe to drink.
What is the point of tap water if it isn't clean?
Are there any European countries where the tap water is not drinkable?
I travelled to the Philippines last year (from Sydney) and you would be crazy to drink the tap water anywhere as a foreigner. I think the Manila locals can but that's about it. It's bottles for everything. While their bottled water is no different to ours, it's a pain in the arse to use bottles for everything and the country is trying to limit its plastic usage yet rely on bottled water.
The day I landed back in Sydney, I had a much missed, massive gulp straight from the tap. It was glorious. I also remember my couple of tours of the UK visiting relatives and drinking straight from the tap. The water was good also.
@@Marina_-_- It's been a while since I visited romania, but back then the water would give you loads of bathroom time. It was recommended to either use bottled water or alcohol to brush your teeth.
The lighting in Aussie cities is AWESOME at night, one of my favorite things about living in the city here!
How can 32 being freezing make sense.
It’s idiotic 0 at freezing makes perfect sense.
I think its easier to round up or down rather than calculate 3-12% tax depending on the state. Sounds like a nightmare to a non maths person like me. 😂 Most times here you won't be rounding at all, the cashier rounds if needed and just tells you the amount.
Also helps that tax is included in our prices here, and just shown as a line item on the receipt for those that want to know.
Re: 1 and 2 cent coins in Australia (Pennies in the US), as I recall, 1 and 2 cent coins were discontinued in Australia as the the cost of manufacturing of these coins was greater than the face value of the coins. They are no longer in circulation or production, however (I believe) they are still legal currency, not that you see anyone use them. Collectors are still looking for them and probably have a small collection of them.
Yes, there are lots of "weird" things here in Aus, but they are not weird to us, just to everyone else in the world. But that is one of the many things that make Australia great and I, for one, would not wish to live anywhere else (with the exception of New Zealand).
Have a great day. Cheers.
My husband has a bunch of 1c and 2c coins that he bought so he can use them for currency tokens for some of our board games. More satisfying to use metal coins rather than the plastic coins you get with board games.
His original idea was to spray paint the coins so they become different values by colour than by denomination. (ie, 1c coin would be copper, 2c coin would be silver and a 10c coin would be gold). But he hasn't gotten around to doing that yet
Unfortunately the cost of manufacturing every coin is currently higher than their face value.
They are not pennies in the US, its just a nickname of the cent.
Left over from when they used British pounds back in the day.
The first time I heard an American call it a penny confused me, we have pennies in England. The 1 pence coin.
I collect 1 and 2 cent coins
@@CurvyCass1982 As do I😊
11:20 filters and bottled water are becoming more popular. Some people are scared of fluoride🤨 but I’ve always drunk tap water with no problems and we just refill water bottles and keep them in the fridge. There is nothing wrong with the water.
Actually i have a system where i filter my water through a bed of barley, hops, and yeast. It comes out really nice.😋
Beer love it
Always buy your filtered water from a recognised licensed Beer BrewiNG company
She’s not wrong about Melbournes crazy weather! On a day when I was out and about, I counted 16 times I took my coat off/put my coat on because I was either too hot or too cold 😂 that’s why they say “if you don’t like Melbourne’s weather, just wait an hour.”
Don't forget about the rain, drizzle can turn into deluge without notice.
Or those beautiful sunny spring or fall days, you look out the window and it look great, you step outside and that southern wind comes through and you are freezing. Blue skies, sunny but bloody cold.
Never ever ever heard of a radio station giving warnings before songs.
Regarding water 💦 bottled water has been found to contain more pollutants and micro plastics then in tap water.
And nothing to say about throwing out all those plastic bottles.
In Aus it’s not unusual to fill up your own mostly metal bottles filled with tap water.
IWocker - i really like your enthusiastiasm and upbeat vibe. I'm am an Ozzie but lived and/or worked abroad for 25 years and am guilty about occassionlly feeling jaded about my home country -- but It's great to hear your fresh impressions about our great southern land! I really hope you get the chance to visit soon. All the best. P.S I spent 4 years living in D.C ... scratch the surface and you find a great city!
She's not wrong about the coffee shops, especially in the city/nightlife areas.
Melbourne being where it is, has very changeable weather, it can literally be throwing down rain in the morning, 30 C' in the middle of the day, warm in the afternoon and freeze your nuts off cold at night. The only place between Melbourne and the south pole is Tasmania!
The 1 & 2 cent coins were taken out of circulation when the face value was lower than the cost of minerals in metals to founder & stamp at the mint along with the convenience of not carry pockets full coins.
Australian currency is also individually different for each denomination for the use of visually impaired to recognise with different raised bumps, ridges, shapes and size same as Braille for printed books.
They re-used the 1c & 2c by melting them down to create the $1 & $2 coins.
Fyi when they made the final press for the 2cent coin the right front foot was damaged and they let it go and was like it for its entrity
Loved the mention of fanny packs. The reason the Aussies use bum bag is directly from the UK connection, where the word fanny refers to female lady parts.
Lots of giggling occurred when ‘the nanny’ was released in Australia and the line ‘she was out on her fanny’ played in the theme tune.
Here in Perth we are heading towards having nearly 10 zones in our train network, to get from one side to another was expensive, they have now made it that in one trip you will only be charged 2 zones max no matter how far you go. Say Joondalup to Mandurah is 100km, with a smartrider card with autoload it's just 4 bucks.
I'm in Canberra. Our tap water is some of the highest quality in the world. It's usually higher quality than store-bought. Literally no point in buying it. It's part of the government's job to ensure clean and safe water is supplied to all citizens.
I live in Melbourne, born 1953. It is a great place, especially the Eastern suburbs. Have never been to W.A. and N.T. and only once to Qld. My late wife was from south of Hobart. Went to NZ about 1973 for one month and stayed with my Uncle and Aunty. What a great place, would love to go back one day. One of my brothers lives there, plus some cousins. Went to L.A. and Vancouver, and an Alaskan cruise with a few days inland, very nice. I like watching Ian's videos and his comments. Ian and his family would love Australia. Ian
Happy 70th Birthday for some time this year. Just had mine. I’m from New Zealand. Our water is great, we have enough of it. Sometimes too much.
I can't believe someone still thinks Melbourne is the best city it once was. Come on. We all know the crimes, home invasions and games are out of control. Dan has ruined the place. So glad we got our of there.
Australian water is sooooo pure , this is a fact. Melbourne water in particular has been voted the ‘sweetest water in the world’. It is really lovely …like drinking a melting virgin iceberg
if you have been sent a Australian $5 or $10 note in the last 2 or so years, take a magnifying glass and look over the note. In micro writing, as a currency security feature, they have poems. The first of which was the $5 which had an Australian poem by banjo patterson. The man from snowy river. That was the first of the $5 with it. each release after that has different things. Pretty cool feature thats fun to try and find.
I actually went into Harvey Norman Clearance centre here in Australia and it must have been a personal music list, but they played Nine Inch Nails " Closer". Which has " I wanna Fk you like animal" , " I wanna feel you from the inside", plus several other very descriptive verses in it. This was a Saturday arvo aswell. I was secretly WTF,I should've brought it up to them, but I didn't. Hey it's Australia, it's only a minute, you'll forget it in 5mins time.
I sent a link to a TH-cam music video I liked to an American friend, and they were vaguely offended by the F bombs in it, which I'd totally not noticed lol. To me, it was part of the artist expressing themselves, in context. It wasn't (to me) for shock value in a song. Having said that, Dennis Leary (comedian), I thought he swore too much; for whatever reason, I prefer "clean" comedy. Horses for courses.
Hahaha, jeez, even I think that's a bit much. A swear word, yeah, but nothing too gutter. But that seems a bit descriptive.
zero freezing, and 100 boiling... that's easy... 50 is a hot coffee. 45 is hot tap water.
The whole world save for US uses the metric system for ease of calculation. Eg. one cubic centimeter of water (at room temp at sea level) = one milli-liter and weighs one gram. So a cube with a side of ten centimeters contains 1000 cubic centimeters and that volume of water is 1 litre which weighs 1 kilogram. One cubic meter of water weighs one tonne. With distance and area one thousand meters is one kilometer, and an area of a square with a side of 100 meters = 10,000 square meters and is called one hectare. It's just so much easier.
Coins:
When the metal you use to make the coins is worth more than what's stamped on them, you have to rethink using those coins. It was just easier to discontinue using them, they weren't really useful anymore. In order to buy anything with them, you'd have to carry dozens of them. They're actually considering doing the same to the 5c piece, too. As for the rounding up or down problem, it's not really a problem. If you pay by card, you pay the exact amount, and the only thing you can regularly buy that doesn't go up in bigger increments is fuel, anyway. Like, there's nothing listed as $19.99 these days, it's $19.95.
A penny in the US costs 3.07c to make, essentially the government is spending tax dollars to keep pennies in circulation which is crazy. Nickels cost 11.54 cents too. Absolutely nuts. Who’s really going to make or not make a purchase because it’s
Hey Ian, just a question about the term bills. Where did that come from coz we call them notes, eg a $10 note. Bills for us are something you have to pay like an electricity bill. Also do you know your bills actually have printed on them "This note is legal tender in the USA?" Hence the question on why you call them bills?
That's a very good question, I hope we get an answer.
I’ll have to look into a proper answer for that. I’m assuming bills is slang and not the “proper” name for them… but everyone here says bills for individual notes and also referring to an “electric” or utility bill
Australia is so big that each state has different weather. We are told to slip slop slap throughout the summer
Here in Queensland, Australia it’s pretty much always sunshine that’s why we are called the sunshine state it’s perfect.
I heard its beautiful one day...
I think the tap water thing is true for a lot of Australia especially in cities that generally have soft water but there are other cities (Adelaide comes to mind) where the water is harder and probably doesn't taste very good.
When Americans think of coffee, do they generally think of drip coffee or espresso and does it change depending on setting (eg at home vs a cafe)? In Australia coffee is basically synonymous with espresso-based hot drinks at cafes, and instant, espresso and moka brewed when having coffee at home. Drip coffee isn't really a thing here.
Adelaide water isn't soft like the eastern states but it's still fine to drink.
From a health and safety perspective, there's no reason to not drink it straight from the tap. That's both the "official" advice and the in practice one - it does contain minerals, but nothing that's actually harmful apart from taste.
@@shaun5552 I’m sure it’s fine to drink, just a bit less pleasant. In terms of hardness, the suburb of Prospect has a score of 117mg/L which is on the upper end of ‘moderately hard‘. As a comparison Melbourne water reports hardness of between 5-35mg/L which is considered ‘soft’.
As someone who was a young boy when Australia introduced decimal currency on 14th Feb 1966 (I can still remember the jingle), I would like to point out that originally we did have 1 and 2 cent coins as well as 1 and 2 dollar notes, although we never have had a 25 cent (quarter) coin. These were phased out in the 1990's by the Keating government, if I remember correctly, for purely practical reasons and the changing value of the base metals in the smaller coins and the better longevity of the larger value coins over the notes (this was before plastic notes were common place).
I can still remember trying to buy an ice cream from Mr Whippy using a mixture of pennies and cents. The one dollar note was equivalent to the 10 bob (shilling) note and the two dollars to the pound note - not that I had too many of those as a boy....
I sang it as I was reading this! How insane that we know the words still to a jingle that started airing in mid 1965!! Can't remember why I opened the fridge??? But I know all the words to the jingle! I used to complain about forgetting things...but I am awesome when a 1970 song would come on the radio. I would Say "Boom She La La Lo! Hans Poulsen 1971!!!!" My daughter turned to me after I got every song and year and said "I think I know why you forget stuff? Your brain is too full of old songs from 50 years ago!"
@@suzyfarnham3165 God, I remember the "Boom She La La Lo" song too. LOL. I remember growing up listening to all those songs on my little transistor radio. I even recall the TV ad for the currency jingle in black and white for goodness sake. You know, the oldest memories are the ones you lose last.
I remember the music used for the jingle was the old Australian bush ballad "Click Go The Shears" which I used to sing at school. I guess it was appropriate that the inventor of the improved sheep shearing handpiece, David Unaipon was featured on the $50 note.
With the language used on the radio, the commecial stations generally wont, nor will chain stores. we have Triple J, which is the ABC's 'youth' station, and often the independent stations, will give a language warning. they dont abuse it, so if someone who calls in drops a "shit" in convo, they'll let it slide, but will disconnect them if they start cussing out. something like a skate shop or a mechanics shop, where it would be more cultrally acceptable, its free for all.
you wont hear much swearing it on TV before 8pm. but its not such a hard and fast rule. there is a great clip out there from the aussie punk bad Frenzal Rhomb playing live on a commercial network, with a backstage preamble saying that they'd keep it clean. they started the set with one of their less offensive songs, but segwayed into the song "cant move into my house", which has a fairly high ratio of f-bombs. but they didnt pull the plug. I just think Aussies find swearing less offensive in general, they are just words, and very useful ones at that. give the song a listen, it is a great song.
im from WA (Western Australia - Perth) Tap water definitely is a thing.. good ol days of drinking from the hose outside lol
And the only time you pay the EXACT price of an item is when its via Card.. otherwise round up or down. GST included!! gotta love that one
New Zealand also uses currency notes of the same type as the Aussies. We also have one and two dollar coins and got rid of one cent coins years ago. Most shopping now is done with cards and a 99c will be recorded as such in the transaction, only cash purchases involve rounding up and down and we don't even notice it as being unusual. It certainly saves on pockets full of small change.
I think the NZ notes are printed here in Australia along wit those of several other countries that went the plastic coloured route. The printing works is located next to Sydney Rd near cragieburn. Note Printing Australia.
@@Gnrnrvids I think you are right there. We certainly don't produce our own so Oz is the logical source.
@@Gnrnrvids I believe we print most if not all the polymer notes. Australian government owns the patent for it. Canada and the UK use them too.
@@titaniascarletknight yeah I think you are right. i knew we did them for the pacific region, but wasn't sure about the others.
Yeah Australia prints polymer notes for 31 countries and licenses the patents/technology to a couple of others.
I am born and bred in Australia. I have always heard the radio play clean versions of songs, so not sure what radio station she listens to!
I live in Adelaide and have heard the Alt version of "Am I ever gonna see your face again" by the Angels many times on different stations.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Some songs were edited but many were played 'as is' and it was years until I realised what the lyrics meant 😅
triplej
Commercial tend to but FM stations like JJJ play the unedited versions
Triple J they play the latest music unedited,with a language warning,also don't play ridiculous commercials.
i have rainwater tanks all my tapwater is rainwater, i have a spearpoint to give me bore water for the garden which is common in rural areas. town water is always safe to drink in Australia but it can have a chlorine taste which is super noticeable to me because i drink pure rainwater. but you can remove the chlorine taste by letting the water sit for a while so a lot of people do have filters or water jugs in the fridge.
He thinks she is talking to him, just a recording....
MAD FREAK !
Yeah I have tanks as well. Cannot bloody stand town water.
Do you have a filtering system for the rainwater? I thought it was not good drinking it straight up. I use my rainwater tanks solely for my toilets.
@@veddyveddygood no filter, never had an issue with it except for once we went on holidays for a week came back and the water tasted foul. we had a green tree frog die in the tank and it got stuck in the outlet. had to drain the tank and clean it out. but nobody got sick or anything. my grandparents and parents have only drank rainwater their whole lives with no issues.
@@6226superhurricane I grew up in the Adelaide Hills - water off our zinc roof was the drinking water. Mum grew ivy on the outside of the brick rainwater tank.
One Summer, the ivy had grown high enough that a snake came looking for water to drink, fell in and drowned. Stinky drinks.
We had it scrubbed and bought a tank of water from the CFS (rural firefighting brigades) and bathed and washed clothes in pale brown dam water until it rained again in Autumn.
Each Summer after that, one of my chores was to check the tank every few days and fish out the very occasional snake with a loop of wire on a pole. It was a 2 metre pole and the snakes all ran away without a backward look.
Trigger Warning for Foil Hatters - because we didn't have fluoridated mains water, we had a fluoride pill with breakfast every morning.
In Adelaide South Australia, we have 40 to mid 40 degrees celsius days regularly in summer. That's over 100 degrees in farenheit
Yeah regarding Melbourne weather, we like to say "if you don't like the weather, just wait 5 mins". Four seasons in one day isn't unusual
I'm not 100% sure, but I've heard our tap water is one of the cleanest, heard from a plumber when I considered getting a filter.
With the costing of things: in most situations prices will set at 5 cent increments e.g 20 cents, 25 cents etc. So something would be $10.35c. If you are buying groceries, petrol, meat, and veg there can be 1 cent increments so $10.38c. The cash register does all the math. If you pay cash it will round out the total but if you pay buy card it will be the unrounded price. Also we don't have to add any taxes ourself. The price listed or on the tag is the price.
That girl definitely gets using the word, “like,” 3 or 4
times in every sentence from America.
And be careful, you sometimes fall into the habit
yourself.
We love our coffee. Starbucks tried to get a toe-hold in Adelaide but once the novelty wore off, it ended up closing because people didn’t like their coffee. It was all syrupy additives!
You’ve gotta be careful sampling too much coffee in Australia, unless you order decaf beans, because the base is always shots of espresso and it’s pretty strong
In Australia many coffee shops have wifi to bring customers in, so many people bring their laptop and work at the coffee shops
There is a quick and easy way to change Celsius to Fahrenheit just double it and add 30 it will be very close maybe one or two degrees off
As an australian i like how yours shows both mph and kph. And i agree while a little confusing farenheit helps with days temps.
Copilot
In Australia, there isn’t a specific law that prohibits songs with explicit content from being played on the radio. However, there are industry guidelines and practices that radio stations follow to ensure responsible broadcasting. Here are some key points:
Parental Advisory Label:
The Parental Advisory label, introduced in 1990 by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), is a voluntary warning placed on audio recordings. It alerts parents to potentially inappropriate material, such as violence, sexual content, or profanity.
In Australia, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) adopted a similar label in 20111.
Recordings with the Parental Advisory label are often released alongside a censored version that reduces or eliminates objectionable material. Some retailers distribute both versions, while others choose to offer only the amended pressing1.
Radio Broadcasting Practices:
Australian radio stations generally follow community standards and self-regulation.
While there’s no strict legal requirement, stations tend to avoid playing songs with excessive profanity during daytime hours when children might be listening.
Some stations may choose to censor explicit lyrics or play edited versions of songs to comply with community expectations.
Performance and Communication Rights:
Musicians and songwriters have performance and communication rights for their music.
Radio stations need licenses to broadcast music. These licenses cover the performance rights, allowing them to play songs on air.
If a station wants to broadcast your music, they’ll typically obtain the necessary licenses to ensure compliance with copyright laws2.
Remember that individual radio stations may have their own policies regarding explicit content, so practices can vary. If you’re a musician or songwriter, it’s essential to understand your rights and work with reputable broadcasters to ensure your music reaches the right audience while adhering to community standards. 🎵📻12
In Australia our tap water contains added fluoride to reduce tooth decay. Whereas bottled water doesn’t.
Lol Fahrenheit makes NO sense.
Celsius is easy.
0 is freezing.
100 is boiling.
I was shocked hearing an American pronounce Melbourne like us haha. Kudos
the coffee shop on every corner is more of a melbourne specific thing than an australia wide thing
That's because historically, coffee shops have been where people go to argue about politics.
Actually in Sydney they are in every corner as well....
It’s not just a Melbourne thing these days. I have 5 coffee shops within 5 kms . They are all over Adelaide too
Only one? There’s 3-4 on every corner in Brisbane/ Hobart / Sydney etc…. It might have been a Melbourne think in the 70’s but look around now and you can barely tell one CBD from another. Hell there’s a dozen in most regional shopping centers!
Australia is very clean and very safe (and friendly)! 🌱🫂🙋 During Covid the coffee shops were all take away, but it's usually sit down service - in Sydney they are everywhere too! My sister and niece are in Melbourne and use airconditioning nearly every day, $$! No fanny packs! 🧐 We don't have to pay for water! A penny?? Weather range 0-50, if it's 100 you have no chance of survival, logical! She has much more exploration and calculation to do! Cheers Aussie Ian! 🇦🇺👍
Drinking tap water is normal in Australia. In Perth nearly half is reverse osmosis desalinated and 30% is ground water, so the water is mostly pollution free or filtered already.
weather where i live in Australia (Brisbane, Queensland) it is very hot (95-105) and humid (60-90% humidity) in summer and usually mild in winter we are currently at the start of winter at the moment it is currently 69.8 at 1 pm
when water makes its way from warragamba dam im sure it leaves ticking every box . But on its way to our homes it travels through hundreds of kilometres pipes almost a hundred years old thst are rusted corroded and we will never know we have already been told its passed all these tests etc back at the dam but water that comes thru our tap is not the same water that leaves the dam it may pass the ph test but thsts just done by adding metals and elements..but with a simple exposure test we can see it only makes ph thru so many additives
the prices include tax so the stickered price is what you pay, so the added tax can sometimes create odd prices where we don't have the cash to its either rounded up or down depending on what the cost is
When she mentioned about the money if it is 12.91 or 12.92 it is rounded down to 12.90 if it is 12.93 or 12.94 it is rounded to up 12.95 so she was slightly off with that. Just wanted to clarify that.but that is only when paying cash if using a credit card or anything else outside of cash then that is the price you will be charged.
By a rule of thumb, you should never drink the local water in foreign countries.
But australia has some of the healthiest tap water for its residence.
I bought a foreign car the other day it came with a bottle of water
So i drank foreign from a foreign
@@nolesy34 but thats bottled water......which is refined to remove all bacteria, and it is the difference of bacteria in water from different regions that causes people who arent used to it to be sick.
Or did you know that and were simply making a joke?
The get it (a fix of caffeine), and go culture, started in Italy with people only drinking a short black, where there is only standing room. The idea being you are not there to socialise, you are there for the coffee and then you leave after perhaps a minute after the exchange of a few pleasantries with people beside you. In Melbourne and Australia generally where towns have become gentrified, there is more of a sit down and socialise atmosphere, because then the shop owner can sell the customer other products, such as pastries or Cakes.
I'm a 59 year old Aussie. I have never heard a warning before a song on the radio.
With cents we round up or down depending on whether it’s closer to 1 or 5 - so 1.93 would round up to 1.95 and 1.92 would round down to 1.90.
You know we're coffee snobs in Oz when even your mates skateboard shop is also a Coffee shop, it has retro chairs and old couches to sit on inside with an umbrella shaded outdoor seating area. The music is either playing from a reel to reel tape machine, records or just Bluetoothed play list he's made up himself
The bad language on radio during songs is only on non-commercial radio. In Melbourne, JJJ or other community radio PBS, RRR or others, only have to pronounce a "language warning" or something similar before playing full versions of songs. And they don't get pulled up if they miss that warning.
Re: the prevalence of coffee shops, for context, if that map is accurate to her area, she’s not even in an inner city area, that’s an outer suburb.
Coffee shops? Try convenience stores. From memory, I counted over 15 in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane!
we have signs that tell you the Raideo station to dial the number for current road conditions and warnings. on the main highways, we have free coffee and tea stops with restrooms so you can have a break. In Queensland, signs encourage you to play trivia and learn about the state !! like What is the Queensland state flower a few K's later you will get the answer (cook orchid) this is to help you stay alert and change the atmosphere in the car (and yes they do change the signs)
Our 1 & 2 cents were done away with around 1991 as it cost more than the value. If you are paying via cash you then round up or down as no physical money to give correct change. If you're paying by card the rounding doesn't happen. If the total comes up to $6.58 you pay $6.58 no rounding needed.
Here in the UK, the tep water is entirely safe to drink from the main kitchen cold water tap/faucet! It's all treated and fluoride is added. The bathroom tap water may be coming from a tank so shouldn't be drunk (unless you know otherwise)!
The cost is about £1 per 1000 litres, so 0.1 pence per litre! So why would you pay for expensive water!?
One thing she didn't mention is that sales tax or (GST, Goods and Services Tax) as they call it here, is included in the price you see on the item. There is no Plus tax like there is in the US. That's one of the things i hate the most when i go there, whenever i but something i'm always paying more than what the price on the item says.
American system: My car gets 56/78" school shootings per nautical mile
@18.33 I believe that Denver , COLORADO , has something similar ,well it did when I was there. .
...and, at least in Queensland, and (everywhere else I think) we lost 1and 2 cent pieces decades ago.
Every purchase is always rounded up, or the precise amount to your card.
The radio thing is mostly just Triple J, the commercial stations play the censored version
Most drinking water in Australia comes from heritage listed national parks so excellent to drink even straight out of the rivers either side of the catchment, a few places have been molested by cotton farmers or fraking & metric system is more precise which you need anyway to make fractions ffs it's not the 1800s & the Cafe culture is unique in Melbourne it's rubbing off a little in Sydney but definitely more continental in Melbourne due to a large Greek & Italian population over the last century
8:20 the best thing about the coffee culture is actually the coffee lol I spent a month in the USA from Chicago to Miami and I don't think I found ONE place that knew how to make a latte... Either so hot you couldn't drink it, or milk not textured properly
When the first plastic five dollar notes were released, a lot of people would either shrink them with an iron or in an oven and turn them into earrings (it’s actually a crime to deface money here, but a LOT of people did it!)
great video! love your approach and openness to other cultures! :] i may be wrong on this - but regarding the swearing in songs on the radio - i've only heard it in australia after certain times as well (ie 9:30pm). also, i have heard music being played in stores with the explicit version of songs - but these are usually stores which are targeted at a particular audience that the music fits to (ie streetwear, sneakers, etc). it's very unsual in those sorts of stores to see children as most of their clients / shoppers fit the target audience.
So much to unpack here. The bridge would be very rare. The speed limit is only on privet new motorways.
The metals in 1&2 cent coins was worth way more than the face value. Also Australia is way more digital for payments in Australia about 90% of all transaction are card only.
Hey mate, I love your vids/reviews. The fact that you are so open minded/interested in how other countries are is great.
Everyone used to drink tap water. Most people over 25 STILL drink tap water, including me. We have the best water in the world, nothing wrong with it, so why not?????
The thing about "things being censored" made me recall an "experiment" that the govt tried in the late 70's.
I was in the Navy (RAN) for years. Early on, when I was a junior sailor, (and before they invented videos) we used to have a movie every night at sea in the main cafe (where we eat, and a rec area after hours). So 16mm projector, and the average movie was 3 reels.
So you had about 100 sailors all crammed into the cafe to watch the dit (movie).
Anyway, we had a change in the movies we got. They decided that movies had to be censored. So, anyone swearing - cut out. and I mean ANYTHING, shit, damn, bugger - anything. Any nudity/sex/sex references = edited out. And this was PURELY for military. Civilian theatres got them uncut - they just labelled them "R rated" etc.
So, we are all adults, most smoking, drinking beer issue, and if told, can go to war. BUT - can't see an uncut movie.
And they were SO CUT - the movie often didn't make sense. A scene where a guy would walk into a bar, and "something would happen" (swear/violence etc) - ALL CUT. So he would walk in/walk out. So, we'd have to stop the movie, ask if anyone had seen it, they would explain what happened = continue on.
It was SO RIDICULOUS, that it only lasted about 6 months, and then they reverted to the "normal" movie. All the crews complained, and the captains basically said "either don't censor them, or if you do, don't bother, we'll go without" so we got our way/reverted to common sense.
Idiots.
At the drags in Australia the speed is now in kph, which for us that follow the drags in America it’s a pain in the arse.
A lot of places in Australia drinking tap water is fine depending on farm runoff. I boil it just in case
Re: pennies - they’re not necessary as I’ve never run into a situation where one is needed in for in-person cash transactions. I’ve never run into the “round down” situation when using cash in AU. Sales tax is flat at 10%. Prices include it to begin with and are often rounded to the dollar or .50, .05 at the lowest. Most online transactions are like this too, though some digital transactions may have .01-level amounts, particularly for fees/interest of some kind, or divided payments. I also never use cash in person here because they have almost 100% tap to pay coverage/mobile card terminals.
As an Australian, I didn't know there were "clean" versions of songs.
"Thong" is not a slang term. We call flip-flops thongs because they use a thong between your toes to keep them on your foot.
Most people in Oz don't use cash anymore, in which case you pay the 93c, not 95c (we round to nearest 5c). Of course, when paying cash only the total bill is rounded.
The crazy part is even the US used the word thong for the footwear until relatively recently. Eg, even post WWII ‘thong’ in the US still was used for footwear. It was only used for underwear relatively recently.
I’m in Bathurst nsw (central tablelands Aus) and we have like 10/15 cafes or cafe+restaurants near me :). Love our coffee culture ❤
It was cool to see you acknowledge the Anzacs like our Aussie cuzzies said we too drink water from the tap and hose bottle water is yukky
I remember the first time I heard the F bomb on free to air, regular network tv. It absolutely blew my mind. I'll be honest, I don't know the exact rules, I'm sure someone can look them up. But basically, after 8 pm anything goes in regards to language and if a movie is rated R, it will be shown unedited (afaik) after 8ish - maybe 8.30 ? But yeaah, that blew my mind.
I also love how they light up their bridges at night and change the lighting, it's really very interesting. I also find the lights on the Sydney Opera House to be fabulous - it doesn't happen a lot because of the cost but when it happens it's beautiful.
It's too bad I don't drink coffee anymore but the coffee culture is really amazing. I will occasionally have one with a friend during winter, It Brisbane I find it too hot in Summer. When my Aussie friends told me Starbucks was coming, I was shocked. They opened a bunch of stores but within a couple of years almost all the stores had closed.
In Australia (and the UK), a fanny refers to a woman's genitalia, so Bum Bag it is. City water in Brisbane sucks, but most of us drink it, I will drink it if it's cold, so I keep about 8 litres in the fridge.
As for the penny issue, rounding up or down works out just fine. It isn't an issue. It really isn't. Aussie coins make more sense, because the smallest coin is 5 cents and 50 cents is the largest. a 1 dollar coin is larger than a 2 dollar coin but the 2 dollar coin is thicker and heavier.
I asked my partner about the size difference between the dollar bills and she genuinely asked me how blind people in America could tell the difference in the denominations. I was stumped. I do remember seeing blind people folding their bills differently and having to rely on the honesty of others, which I find dangerous in today's society. So, having bills of different sizes makes a whole lot more sense now.
We have such good coffee available to us here in Australia. As a coffee lover it is a thing to sit back and enjoy, a relaxation, rather then a thing to get you going. So good coffee shops have a good barista, often produce their own roasts and a good relaxing atmosphere to stop and enjoy it.
The pricing of something at like $12.93 would round up to $12.95 but something like $12.92 would round down to $12.90
The other big difference we have is the price on the shelf vs the register at a shop. Instead of it saying $1 on shelf and coming to $1.50 due to tax, we have the tax already calculated on the shelf price.
So an item that costs $1 on the shelf, is the same price at the register.
It can be funny in our household watching american telly/movies because of the Fahrenheit/Celsius, metric/imperial systems. If we hear the temperature or measurements in a program, the telly/movie is paused and everyone rushes to their tech so they can be the first get the conversions. The winner is always so happy to have 'won' the race.
For the penny. We round down for 1 or 2 cents and up for 3 and 4 cents but only if you are paying cash. And our tap water is like world class recognised and tastes great! And my water bill for a 2 person house for all water is $19 per quarter (yes I did just go find my last bill to check. It's never over $30)
Mate we not only drink our tap water by river and creek water as well, as long as it's flowing over rock, preferably over blue stone.
Never heard of a warning before a song gets played here in Melbourne.. Our stations just play it as it is.
I think our biggest difference is our healthcare, Medicare here is life saving funding. America has a complex health insurance protocol not only dictating who can provide you service/care under your policy but with astronomical monthly costs. In Australia if you present at a public hospital emergency you will be treated FREE! Medical insurance is really only required for elective surgery.
Tap water in brisbane is more pure than Fiji Water, Evian, and most other bottled water brands. The upper Brisbane river is the water source and is so pristine it is mind boggling. The dam was designed to supply the city for 10 years with receiving a drop of rain…
Water in Oz is perfectly safe to drink from the tap. A lot of money is spent by governments here to ensure it's potable. As to coins - the last 2 and 1 cent coins were minted in 1990. Our coins however are different sizes and thicknesses and have different markings on the side for those who are sight impaired. As to metric, we didn't go to the metric system until 1974, so I grew up learning imperial. I still find myself sometimes converting from one to the other. For Fahrenheit the old rule of thumb for celsius to F is double it and add 32. Not perfect, but quick and easy. Can't do much about Melbourne's quirky weather. Move north if it concerns you. Weather up my way is brilliant....literally and figuratively. Thanks Ian, always a pleasure.
You’ll find the coffee culture is pretty much nation wide. You’re never far away from a cafe anywhere here.
as someone living in the netherlands , the sunny warm days here are hell .
2 humid and hot , you can't do sh*t all day .
so i would never move 2 a place where the sun would always shine and is always warm .
i just can't imagine it being comfortable , when its cold u can dress warm , but when its warm, well there is only so much you can take off.